The Ghost Bike dedicated to Edward Lindsey Mack, who was killed on April 27 by an alleged drunk driver while riding his bike downtown Mobile. (Bill Starling/bstarling@al.com)

Misplaced protest: Another human rights group is going to be in Mobile
marching and parading. Why don't they parade in Prichard, where they kill
children every day of their lives? That's where they need to be, not out here
where it's a clear case of vehicular homicide (Edward Lindsey Mack case). He
will be put in jail.

Keep it local: I saw a black attorney on TV today (Gerald Rose) and he
said he was going to have people come down from Atlanta to back him up, to make
sure that charges were filed properly (in the Edward Lindsey Mack case). Why is
it that the blacks do this all the time? I think that everybody needs to
understand that the law is something that we live by – all of us. It's not just
blacks, it's not just whites. All of us. We don't need to bring people in from
out of town to demonstrate every time we have a court case.

We don't care about the royal baby: Please, white news media stop pushing the prince and
princesses' new baby on us. We of color do not give a care. Give me a break.
Every channel I turn to there's a 'princess watch' on a little baby that's
coming. We really don't care.

The baby is here. Now what?: Well, the royal baby has been born, it's a boy. Why do we
care? Is my house note going to go down? Are my taxes going to go down? Is my
life going to be better? Maybe the Brits care, but why would the news over here
waste all this time on the royal baby? What makes it royal? When I was born, I
was royal, too, but I wasn't born in a castle. Anyway, who cares?

Transparency problem: I'm concerned about the copies of bank statements and
canceled checks printed concerning the Jackson County Sheriff's Department
Fund. Some of the checks have people's account numbers and business account
numbers on them on the back, and I feel like that is a security breach for
those people and that it is something that needs to be looked at.

A president by any name: Vivian Figures says that when people say that the
government is intrusive in our lives or that Solyndra is just obviously a bad,
crooked deal, she says that when people use Obama's name it's racism. That's
absolutely ridiculous. If Bush had done it, they said Bush. When Clinton did
things, they said Clinton. The president gets called out for what he does – it
has nothing to do with race. How can people think we elected a black president,
but yet we're racist? This is just silly, isn't it?

The jury has spoken: I cannot believe that a jury has spoken and everybody is
going berserk over this Trayvon Martin, who was known to be on drugs, got
kicked out of school three times, stole jewelry, one of the preachers on TV
called him a "thug." The more I think about it, that poor truck driver
(Reginald Denny) who was driving his truck during the Rodney King riots – they
pulled him out of his truck and just about beat him to death. O.J. Simpson,
Michael Jackson – they were both guilty. What in the world is going on when you
can't let a jury be the final word?

Ouch: In rebuttal to a 'Sound Off' column today (Sunday July 21),
if a white president had accomplished what Barack Obama has, he would not have
been elected to a second term because that man has not accomplished anything.

Survey says: I think the Press-Register should go through the community
convenience stores and ask the workers what they fear most. It's a black man,
walking into the store with a 'hoody' on. Just do that survey. We're talking
about black workers in these stores. They're scared to death of a black man,
especially with gold teeth like Trayvon had, and a hoody on. It scares them.
And they've got a right to be scared.

Change: I hope these two low-down punks that pistol-whipped that
lady trying to work and make a living for her children, I hope they rot in
jail. This is the problem today. Nobody says anything about that. But a man
trying to protect himself, they're all over television saying "we're going to
change things." Why don't they change all these young women and keep them from
having babies? That's what they need to work on, teenagers having pregnancies.
They need to change a lot.

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